FG orders poultry owners’ registration against Avian Influenza outbreaks *Association demands action plan*

outbreak of Avian Influenza

In view of the almost yearly outbreak of Avian Influenza across the states of the federation in Nigeria, the Federal government through her Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh has ordered that all the poultry owners through the country must be registered for proper monitoring of bird flu disease.

Support More Farmers-Okopi tells FG

Solomon Okopi

The Federal Government has been called upon to support the activities of farmers in the country. This will in turn improve the quality of food production and end importation.

Groups Reject Planned Introduction of Genetically Modified Maize, Cotton in Nigeria

 Maize

No fewer than 100 rights groups and faith-based organizations have opposed attempts to introduce genetically modified (GM) cotton and maize into Nigeria's food and farming systems.

Group advocate youths mobilisation for agricultural opportunities

Informal Workers Association of Nigeria

The Federation of Informal Workers Association of Nigeria (FIWON), an NGO, has called for the mobilisation of youths to develop agricultural potentials in Osun state.

Yobe To Support IDPs With Agricultural Inputs – SEMA

Internally Displaced Persons

The Yobe Government has pledged to support Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) relocating to their communities with agricultural inputs to boost farming and promote economic rehabilitation.

Utilize agricultural opportunities in Ondo- Mimiko tells farmers

Dr Olusegun Mimiko

Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has charged the pro-farmers attached to the state’s newly established 1,000 daily capacity Chicken Processing Plant to make maximum use of the opportunities in the entire agricultural value chain they are being exposed to, in order to become an employer of labor in the nearest future.

Enugu state Agric commissioner insist on private sector driven tractorization

FG

The Agric Commissioner, Enugu state, Engr M.C.C Eneh has said it would be very retrogressive to bring the old system of inputs distribution through government procurement in the face of fighting corruption just as Hon. Munir Babba Dungundi suggested the need for Growth Enhancement Support (GES) law for effective operation thereby having a different position from Kaduna state commissioner, Dr. Manzo Daniel Maigari who wanted the programme decentralized.

Editorial- Using D-8 on Halal meat to solve herdsmen and farmers’ clashes

 herdsmen

The daily recurrent of clashes between the farmers and herdsmen in the local communities  has brought the issue of the 2013 D-8 meeting held in Abuja into our focus as one of the measures that can be used to checkmate this menace as animals would be contained in a place for better meat fatling for more economic gain running to trillion pounds in the global market.